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... authorities on ethnology and glottology , and one , too , who insists almost too much upon the mechanism of language , † declares that " the chance is less than one in a million for the same combination of sounds signifying the same ...
... authorities on ethnology and glottology , and one , too , who insists almost too much upon the mechanism of language , † declares that " the chance is less than one in a million for the same combination of sounds signifying the same ...
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... authority of great names , looking at these particles from a too grammatical point of view . We first make the particles grammatical , and then we declare them to be utterly anomalous ; the facts being , that they are not strictly or ...
... authority of great names , looking at these particles from a too grammatical point of view . We first make the particles grammatical , and then we declare them to be utterly anomalous ; the facts being , that they are not strictly or ...
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... authority to cite , the demonstration must of necessity be par la voie du fait , and depend on the fitness and number of instances . I am prepared with thousands of instances whose applicability or fitness will , I think , be allowed to ...
... authority to cite , the demonstration must of necessity be par la voie du fait , and depend on the fitness and number of instances . I am prepared with thousands of instances whose applicability or fitness will , I think , be allowed to ...
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... authorities . We may thus perceive the value of the evidence in question with reference to the uncultivated tribes , as to whose affinity to each other and to the cultivated tribes Mr. Metz writes thus , " When I came up to the hills ...
... authorities . We may thus perceive the value of the evidence in question with reference to the uncultivated tribes , as to whose affinity to each other and to the cultivated tribes Mr. Metz writes thus , " When I came up to the hills ...
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... authorities in Assam and in various parts of the chain of mountains dividing our provinces from those of Ava , in order to obtain the Indo - Chinese series of border languages- all upon one uniform plan . These shall be hereafter ...
... authorities in Assam and in various parts of the chain of mountains dividing our provinces from those of Ava , in order to obtain the Indo - Chinese series of border languages- all upon one uniform plan . These shall be hereafter ...
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